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Fugui
The protagonist of the novel, Fu Gui, was originally a capable young man. After his mother died, he owed money to Wang Laowan for weddings and funerals. He was exploited at all levels to gain land and debts. He had no choice but to gamble and steal. When he worked as a drummer, he was buried alive by the Wang family, so he had to flee. After liberation, he returned from the liberated area and only wanted to confront Wang Laowan and seek justice. Fugui's experience is the epitome of the old socie
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Pan Yongfu, a Man of Action
"Pan Yongfu, the Doer" begins with "Cihang Pudu". The older generation of boatmen at the five ferries all have connections with Pan Yongfu. In this way, Pan Yongfu, who is good at work, has exerted his professional qualities in the process of building bridges, building reservoirs, and developing farms. A very outstanding and vivid point in the novel is the formation of a set of "logic of indifference": there is not much difference between the house and the wild land, there is not much difference
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Pray for Rain
The protagonist of "Praying for Rain" is a Dragon King Temple in Jindouping Village. The novel shows the struggle of rural people against feudal superstition in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and their final victory. The text is humorous and vivid, and it is a very excellent work. "Floor" explores the debate about who creates wealth between "floor" and "labor" in the context of land reform at that time, through a dialogue between two characters named Wang - land
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Register
"Registration" is set in rural North China and focuses on the theme of marital autonomy. The story is mainly based on the marriage experiences of two generations, Xiao Moth and Ai Ai, and unfolds in two lines. When the little moth was young, she had a beautiful appearance and had a young man she liked. However, her parents arranged to marry Zhang Carpenter. After the marriage, she was severely beaten by Zhang Carpenter, which left her with severe inner trauma. The rest of her life was dull and d
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Meng Xiangying Turns Over
Zhao Shuli's "Meng Xiangying Stands Up" is based on Meng Xiangying, the "hero who survived the famine" in the Taihang Mountains. It does not follow the narrative mode commonly used in liberated area literature, which mainly shows the heroic deeds of characters after they turn over, but chooses the arduous transformation process of "how a person becomes a hero from a non-hero". This makes the novel present an artistic style that is different from many "new women" works on the theme of transformat
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Family Heirloom
"Heirloom" is set in the countryside of the liberated areas in the 1940s, and revolves around the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in an ordinary family. It shows the collision of old and new ideas and the impact of social changes on family relationships. The core characters of the story are mother-in-law Li Chengniang and daughter-in-law Jin Gui. Li Chengniang guarded an old dowry box that she regarded as a "family heirloom", which contained needles, threads, rulers, scissors,
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